Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | This poem helped me to find a way back into my own poetry . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , ’ the Doctor began , ‘ first I 've got your General Fakrid barking at me to find a way to polish off these eight twelves . |
| 3 | I hate throwing my MKM away so I devised a way of condensing the information and patterns . |
| 4 | I sought a way of fudging it , of drawing a two-dimensional picture that conveyed something of what it feels like to move from point to point in the nine-dimensional genetic space of Biomorph Land . |
| 5 | I was debating whether to try to stop the bleeding first or to leave him in his uncertain state while I found a way out , trusting he would n't totally pass out , when I heard the main door creak open directly above our heads ; the way Harry and I had come in . |
| 6 | Mind you , I found a way round that : never clean the fingerboards … ’ |
| 7 | I had such a horrific adolescence and childhood , it 's not surprising I found a way out , an escape from the pain . |
| 8 | I confided in him and we worked at it together and I found a way to have an orgasm . |
| 9 | A lot of these were books written by moralistic females ; books which erm reflected various kinds of Victorian ideas , and much later on when I did some research in Oxford on Victorian literature I found a way of putting these two sorts of things together . |
| 10 | I know a way through the keep that will take us out near the stables and the postern . |
| 11 | I know a way out of Parfois that has n't been used for years , but it 's still open if you know where to find it . |
| 12 | I took a way out that I thought was best . ’ |
| 13 | He did all the right things and so I had a way out . |
| 14 | But I have a way for that … |
| 15 | In Chapter vi I suggested a way in which this can be achieved . |
| 16 | Can I find a way of being a teacher — can I see any role models — which allows a satisfactory compromise between my career ambitions , my wish to be a good subject teacher , my desire to promote my broader educational ideals , my intention to be a ‘ real person ’ as much as I can , and my commitment to improving the status and conditions of teaching as a profession ? |
| 17 | I know what it 's like these days — we 're all stretched as far as we can go ’ — he sighed — ‘ but I 've had a little think and I see a way round it for you . |
| 18 | This submission appears to me to suggest a way of making more effective proceedings in Parliament by allowing the court to consider what has been said in Parliament as an aid to resolving an ambiguity which may well have become apparent only as a result of the attempt to apply the enacted words to a particular case . |
| 19 | Do you know a way out of here that is n't past the desk ? ’ |
| 20 | So she schemed until she found a way of having the second thing without losing the first . |
| 21 | She was the last of the Roxborough line , he 'd said , unless she found a way to fertilize one of her girlfriends . |
| 22 | You seek a way of making DNA that is complementary to a molecule of messenger RNA ? |
| 23 | I mean if it does , you , I think you find a way of coping with it . |
| 24 | You look at the problem ; you think it through ; you find a way . |
| 25 | And I have been years on Bold injections and all the rest of it , and I know from experience you get , you deal with it , it does n't cure the disease but can you see you have a way of dealing with it , of coping with it , of helping yourself er c er do things and therefore you can |
| 26 | ‘ Do you have a way to get in ? ’ he asked . |
| 27 | When the abuse begins she has fits , slowly she finds a way of coping by living a double life ; her life , the one she chooses and controls , exists outside her father 's house . |
| 28 | I know for a fact she 's had her eye on my mother 's matinée jacket collection for years and when I once , in passing , said I wondered what happened to those old prosthetic devices in the estates of deceased senior citizens , Madge let it slip that she knew a way of turning a Zimmer frame into an attractive lamp ! ’ |
| 29 | She had a way of leaving one without an answer . |
| 30 | And she had a way of conjuring up places , in terms of their dimensions , that led those same children to explore their houses and fields blindfold ; the dark world that they discovered with their fingertips was new to them — but not frightening as they had supposed it to be . |